April in Brookfield smells like wet ground and cut grass, and the ballfields fill up again on weeknights while the light holds. Refresh Landscaping opens its year right about then — beds cleared of matted winter leaves, the first mow taken high, edges reset along walks that have been buried since December. Village yards are small and full of detail, so the work is as much trimming and tidying as it is cutting. Summer settles into a weekly visit; November closes things out with the last of the leaves. A lawn brought back from a Midwest winter is a genuinely satisfying thing to stand and look at.